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Pratyeka Buddha Bodhit Knowledge Jnän
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| One can achieve salvation only after one has attained Omniscience
(kevel) knowledge, but during the process, one goes through all four types of knowledge or a combination of them.
09 Size of body
Avagähana
One can achieve salvation with different size of body, maximum size in early humans, medium and small size in later times.
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Interval Antar
Souls can achieve salvation continuously one time unit apart or intermittently up to maximum of six months apart.
One to 108 souls may be liberated during one unit of time.
Number Sankhyä
Conclusion The mundane soul's aim is to liberate from this worldly suffering. The soul is in a transmigratory state due to the results of one's own ignorance (Mithyätva) and passions, resulting in karmic bondage to the soul. Spirituality can occur when the soul removes ignorance and reduces passions. Once the soul remains for a very brief moment in his true pure state - innate form - then it is called self-realization (Samyag Darshan). The soul is now capable to increases his efforts and tries to stay in its innate form longer and longer, by doing so, achieves salvation. Jain philosophy has laid out fourteen stages of spiritual development in a very intelligent way, from the first state of deluded state of mundane soul, to the fourteenth stage of liberated free souls called Gunasthäna.
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